At EY, we are committed to building a better working world – with increased trust and confidence in business, sustainable growth, development of talent in all its forms, and greater collaboration.
We want to build a better working world through our own actions and by engaging with like-minded organizations and individuals. This is our purpose – and why we exist as an organization.
Running through our organization is a strong sense of obligation to serve a number of different stakeholders who count on us to deliver quality and excellence in everything we do.
We want to use our global reach and scale to convene the conversation about the challenges facing economies and the capital markets.
When business works better, the world works better.
Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs of our global organization. They guide our actions and behavior. They influence the way we work with each other – and the way we serve our clients and engage with our communities.
Every day, each one of us makes choices and decisions that directly affect the way we experience each other and the way our clients and wider communities experience us. Our values give us confidence that we are using the same principles to help us make these decisions throughout our global organization.
Our global awards program, Better begins with you, enables our people to recognize and celebrate individuals and teams within our organization who consistently live our values and bring our purpose of building a better working world to life through their everyday behavior, which in turn makes an impact on our clients, people and communities.
This program is an important way in which we are building our shared culture, founded on our strong commitment to our values.EY-Parthenon has more than 25 years of experience in questioning the status quo with and for clients, as well as advising on strategies that are centered on each client’s potential. We are multi-sector professionals and have built up in-depth knowledge in our core sectors. In addition, we deploy the focused competencies of our network in areas such as digitalization and analytics.
EY-Parthenon Nigeria is recently established and fast growing. This is providing new team members broader responsibilities, more exposure to clients, and overall a significant opportunity for personal growth and development.
Therefore EY-Parthenon is looking to attract Manager who is looking for entrepreneurship and responsibilities in a fast-paced environment on different levels.
Your key responsibilities
The EY-Parthenon Manager will have a leading role in the development and execution of the strategy services in Nigeria. Our teams work on a variety of client issues. The range of assignments includes developing long-term strategies for organizations, evaluating the potential acquisition of businesses, improving programme outcomes, developing new marketing channel strategies, reducing operating costs, and evaluating new business ventures.
The selected candidate will be expected to:
Contribute to business development by preparing client meetings and project proposals and by participating in client discussions
Lead client projects and engagement teams to deliver high quality outputs on the above range of engagements
Maintain relationships with client personnel at appropriate levels.
Demonstrate advanced knowledge of all phases and aspects of strategy development and implementation
Demonstrate ability to not only identify strategic opportunities, risks and issues, but also to recommend resolutions
Deliver a high degree of client satisfaction with the engagement process and work products sufficient to drive additional and repeated engagements
Successfully supervise, coach, and mentor all levels of staff
Skills and attributes for success
4-7 years working experience in a strategy advisory company and/or in a corporate strategy department
To qualify for the role you must have
Bachelor’s degree with outstanding academic performance.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a practical ability to shape the business agenda and define strategic roadmaps
Experience with managing complex business projects, working with multi-disciplinary teams
Strong people and leadership skills (incl. cross-functional collaboration, team management and people development & coaching)
Strong internal and external business development acumen
Entrepreneurial spirit, team player and excellent communicator
Ideally, you’ll also have
An MBA degree will be considered as a strong asset
Excellent communication skills and within a virtual working environment